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Many delegates to the A.A.U.P. had similar sentiments. Other academics challenged the A.I.A. monitors to speak up in class and freely debate their professors instead of tiptoeing off with reports, which thus far seem few and trivial. Csorba acknowledges that his operatives have turned up only six "active" cases so far. One example: Mark Reader, an Arizona State political science professor who is accused of taking too strong a stance against nuclear war in his lectures...
...telling commentary on the debates that past match-ups have hinged on the trivial, the superficial, or the spectacular if momentary mental breakdown. And because of all the attention focused on the Great Debates, these factors are magnified beyond any reasonable proportion...
This is not a trivial matter. Each packet was mailed through the U.S. Postal Service at a cost of $1.07. Multiplying this by the approximately 6400 undergraduates at Harvard reveals that over $6800 was spent on distribution alone. (This sum does not take into account the graduate students who received the mailing.) Each packet contained over 60 pages of printed material. Even at an extremely conservative estimate of $0.32 per packet (one half cent per page) for printing costs, this adds up to a total of over $2000. Even if every undergraduate wished to view these reports (which seems highly...
...offbeat people. Anyone who can remember one tenth of the details will be a walking encyclopedia of things Texan from the number of types of cactus in Big Ben National Park to the unlikely origin of "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Texas isn't a bad combination of Trivial Pursuit and Dallas, but it isn't a good way to get to know Texas either...
Lots of judges out there might fit Reagan's criteria on abortion, school prayer and friendliness to big business. But plenty of them are not good judges capable of reasoning and balancing issues that range from the obscure or trivial or unexpectedly profound. And if Reagan chooses a clown, then he might do well by antiabortion groups, but flop for the country as a whole...